Laxlife: Cradling Drill

Once players have mastered cradling and dodging around pylons the next progression is to work on their cradling (aka ball protection) and dodging in the open floor against a defender.
This drill is as much a drill for the defender as it is the ball carrier, which is why variation 1 starts with just the defender practicing their footwork & a demo on back-pedaling, drop stepping & side-shuffling in the open floor.
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00:06 Open Floor Checking Intro
00:17 Variation #1: Footwork Only
01:38 Variation #2: Footwork & Ball Carrier
03:11 Variation #3: Footwork & Checking
03:45 Open Floor Checking Conclusion